Over the last couple of weeks I've been moving between several ongoing projects as my mood takes me, and it made me wonder whether I am alone in doing this? Don't get me wrong, at times I can work all the way through something, but more often than not a glitch/lack of right part, tool,etc/boredom makes me move onto something else.
At the moment on the modelling shelf I've got 2 Boosters awaiting final painting; a King Arthur needing handrails; a 2MT tank needing pony truck work; a rake of four Maunsell high window coaches re sprayed into BR green needing lettering before reassembly; and a Maunsell Nondescript coach needing some minor tweaks before painting. I've got everything for these but the mood hasn't taken me yet since it left a few weeks ago in most cases.
Instead, I've been doing viaduct sides in card for the layout with Scalescenes paper covering; designing and cutting some large bridge girders; designing and cutting a big warehouse for the rear of the layout; and making a kit of parts for a new warehouse for James Street. In my "spare" time in the evening I've been going through books to find inspiration for some small scenes around the layout.
It must be lovely to just say "I'm doing this for a month or so" but it doesn't seem to work for me!
So what are you, plodder or flitter?!
Dave
Both ->
Plod till I get to an impasse then Flit to relieve the brain! This often results in a solution to the Plodding!
Think there might be a third category which is Guru - these are people you refer to for answers/solutions when plod-flit-plod-flit fails.
Currently I'm possibly guilty of plagiarising Gurus when contributing - makes me appear knowledgable when really I'm plodding - or flitting.
"Thank God its Christmas"
I'm definitely a flitter.
Oh, what's that shiny thing over there...
Ross ;)
I'm a terrible flitter.
I used to think I was a completer/finisher at work, but when it comes to modelling, nothing is ever finished.
Like tax. Happy (sic) to do my VAT and Corporation tax for my own business, but run round in a screaming panic when its my personal tax.
Cheers
Bob
Quote from: RBTKraisee on December 24, 2024, 04:01:25 PMI'm definitely a flitter.
Oh, what's that shiny thing over there...
LOL - took the words out of my mouth :smiley-laughing:
Definitely a flitter.
Interests in UK, Belgian, Swiss, German, US/Canadian and Japanese prototypes but I'm always seeing other things that make me think: "Ooo that would make a nice model."
That's what first drew me to modules and modular layouts; I thought that at least I'd stand a chance of making some good progress on a module before something else stole my interest. A big US style layout, no chance, my interest would end up wandering.
Plus I enjoy plastic kit building with the same range of interests in subjects.
The variety is part of the fun for me though.
I have to admit to being a flitter.
I flit between the two so am probably a Flodder :-[
Quote from: Newportnobby on December 24, 2024, 06:52:46 PMI flit between the two so am probably a Flodder :-[
Could have been worse - you could have been a plitter!
I am a plodder although I can have a 8 to 10 projects on the go
I will always start with the one the is nearest to been finished then work
through in descending order so not all projects will get worked on in each session
John
I must be a plodder in the sense it takes me a hundred years to get off me bum and do anything ;)
I must have at least 20 projects at least partially completed, and a similar number waiting to start!
I flit to a project, then plod. Then flit. Rinse and Repeat.
Quote from: LASteve on December 24, 2024, 09:39:32 PMI flit to a project, then plod. Then flit. Rinse and Repeat.
snap, same for me
I'm do both. I like to finish a job once started, but this depends on what it is. If fitting a decoder to any loco, even those 'vintage' types not designed for DCC, I like to finish it once started; if scenery then I flit as I don't find this so interesting. I also flit between working on my layout and working on things for the club layout, or even maintenance on the clubroom electrics. I reckon it is good to keep moving between things to keep the 'little grey cells' active.
Cheers! :beers:
Quote from: LASteve on December 24, 2024, 09:39:32 PMI flit to a project, then plod. Then flit. Rinse and Repeat.
That's a very fair point. I'm sure
@Bob G would say that two years on the N15 project does qualify as plodding - I just flitted to half a dozen other projects in the meantime ;)
Ross
definitely both. I get a perverse satisfaction in hacking models to something not made as RtR or kit. Often means waiting for the preferred donor to come up cheap.
Then spending hours / days with it to get to the point ive had enough and flit to something else. But usually to the running stage.
I plod until I flit :D
Essentially I'll work on something until I hit a snag. Then I'll do something else until I figure out how to resolve the snag. So does that make me a plodding flitter or a flitting plodder?
Quote from: GrahamB on December 26, 2024, 09:14:56 AMSo does that make me a plodding flitter or a flitting plodder?
Are you related to Ronnie Barker in any way, Graham? ;)
I'm with
@GrahamB in that I work on something until I get stuck, but the thing that causes me to be stuck can be minor or major depending on my level of interest at that point! I'm enjoying getting the viaducts sorted at last on Brickmakers Lane, so I'm ploughing on through issues on Inkscape to get it done, whereas I only need to make up some fuse wire handrail knobs to finish off the King Arthur, but can't be a@sed at the moment, dunno why!
Flitting Plodder I think......
Dave
4 layouts in various stages of construction, a diorama of a radar station being built.
There's a 16 ft sailing boat outside, needing its annual maintenance.
And just behind me is a new club foot jib I'm sewing..
Oh and 4 ft from my feet is a new puppy..
Concentrate on one thing?
No chance..
Quote from: Newportnobby on December 26, 2024, 09:39:11 AMAre you related to Ronnie Barker in any way, Graham? ;)
Fork handles ...
I find to do one job I don't want to do : I plan 2 undesirable jobs and then one gets done (or almost done).
Definitely a plodder - I hate having unfinished projects. I have tons of projects yet to be started but once I start, I do like to complete them.
Quote from: chrism on December 27, 2024, 08:13:34 AMQuote from: GrahamB on December 27, 2024, 08:06:38 AMQuote from: LASteve on December 26, 2024, 09:28:52 PMQuote from: Newportnobby on December 26, 2024, 09:39:11 AMAre you related to Ronnie Barker in any way, Graham? ;)
Fork handles ...
Got any hose?
No, O's - "Mon Repose" :D
Got any P's?
(Probably the most brilliant sketch since Monty Python's Cheese Shop or Architects)
I plod but also flit.
The main (UK-image but not based on anywhere) single track layout has undergone a few transformations and location moves and is never finished, in fact, last night Mrs Foxhound announced we should give it an overhaul and change the seasons on it, so off we go again.
The Christmas layout (totally fictional single loop, anything goes) runs like an absolute donkey no matter what I do to the track so I may relay it with Kato and see what happens. Or, I may scrap it....
The Euro/foreign twin track layout still lives in my head and although I have a load of rolling stock from Germany, Italy, Switzerland and France (and the US), a controller and some track, I haven't bought the boards yet, and I haven't finished the trackplan.....
Not only that, but I get the whole 'Oh look, shiny' thing. Case in point, I bought a Leicester Modellers D600 body and even got the right Farish Cl47 chassis to go with it. Fully intended to get buffers, nameplates, transfers, get it sprayed and glazed when I got around to it. This was about 4 years ago. I misplaced my Round Tuit and now there's a RTR version of the darned things, finally, and boy, are they shiny. I just need to see how they run on Kato Unitrack before talking the plunge.
Quote from: Newportnobby on December 27, 2024, 08:17:27 AMQuote from: chrism on December 27, 2024, 08:13:34 AMQuote from: GrahamB on December 27, 2024, 08:06:38 AMQuote from: LASteve on December 26, 2024, 09:28:52 PMQuote from: Newportnobby on December 26, 2024, 09:39:11 AMAre you related to Ronnie Barker in any way, Graham? ;)
Fork handles ...
Got any hose?
No, O's - "Mon Repose" :D
Got any P's?
(Probably the most brilliant sketch since Monty Python's Cheese Shop or Architects)
Just to save time - and save any poor sole who hasn't a clue what we're on about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNTM9iM1eVw refers.
Quote from: Ensign Elliott on December 26, 2024, 11:19:12 PMDefinitely a plodder - I hate having unfinished projects. I have tons of projects yet to be started but once I start, I do like to complete them.
I totally respect that attitude. I just don't share it!
I think this why I'll never make anything good enough for an exhibition. For me, making the layout -- especially the scenics and buildings -- is the fun part. That's the bit I find challenging and interesting. By the time I'm close to finishing a layout, I can see what I did 'wrong' and want to rip up the layout and start over!
Cheers, NeMo